152 LEPIDOPTERA. 



a duplicate whitish line ; second line also broad, and after 

 curving back near to the costa almost straight, also very 

 oblique, and edged on both sides with dark brown, and has a 

 parallel pale line on the outside ; subterminal line broad, 

 repeatedly angulated, broken, and displaced below the apex, 

 also forming an imperfect W above the anal angle ; orbicular 

 stigma ovate, oblique, brown, edged with brownish-white, and 

 outside this with dark brown ; reniform stigma large, 

 yellowish-white edged with black, and divided into cres- 

 cents by a perpendicular brown line; claviform stigma some- 

 what of a loop, visible from its black margin ; costal region 

 rather pale, but having a pair of brown spots at the 

 origin of each transverse line ; between the stigmata and 

 crossing the wing is a slender, much rippled dark brown 

 central shade ; between the second and subterminal lines a 

 band of dark brown dashes occupying the spaces between 

 the pale nervures ; extreme hind margin edged with minute 

 black lunules ; cilia very faintly crenulated, whitish -brown, 

 clouded with darker. Hind wings brownish-white with the 

 nervures faintly darker ; central spot very long, pale brown ; 

 beyond it is a broad ill-defined brownish cloudy band which 

 encloses a paler shade near the margin ; in this band the 

 nervures are darker brown ; cilia whitish. Female decidedly 

 stouter, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings yellowish-grey, more yellow 

 toward the costa, whiter toward the dorsal margin ; reniform 

 stigma narrow, dark brown ; beyond it is a partial straight 

 brownish transverse stripe, near the hind margin a more 

 complete yellowish stripe, broken near the apex. Hind wings 

 white, with the costal region broadly yellowish-grey ; central 

 spot large, dark brown ; beyond it is a slender partial trans- 

 verse brown line ; hind margin clouded with pale brown 5 

 body and legs pale purplish-brown ; leg tufts paler. 



Very slightly variable in depth of ground colour ; extremely 

 constant in markings. 



On the wing in June and July. 





